Ice Cream Sladoled EPK

ICE CREAM. SLADOLED

(Translation: Ice Cream. Ice Cream)

Running Time: 12:42

A Film By: Steve Spremo

Starring: Igor Obradović

Director of Photography: Srđan Srđenović

Edited by: Damián Tetelbaum

Sound Design: Aleksandar Manja

Production Company: River North Pictures

Subtitles: Serbian (white), Spanish (yellow), Broken Serbian or Broken Spanish (orange), English (not subtitled)

Shooting Format: Digital, Aspect Ratio 2.39

World Premiere: Palm Springs International ShortFest (June 2022)

To Date, Ice Cream. Sladoled has been Selected By 29 Film Festivals

SYNOPSIS

LOGLINE

A Day in the Life of a recent immigrant, where no one understands anyone else, and a trip to buy ice cream triggers a series of absurd misadventures.

A Day in the Life of a thirty-something immigrant caught in a rut. He lives in a place where everyone speaks a different language and no one understands anyone else. When his wife asks him to buy ice cream, his day unravels as misunderstandings sink to absurd misadventures. A satirical view about a day where the effects of a new immigrant's mounting hardships and dizzying realities all converge into one big mess.

DIRECTOR

STATEMENT

Ice Cream. Sladoled is a story about an immigrant. It’s also about misunderstandings, confusion, and everything that a nonstop barrage of obstacles brings. Often, this adversity can be mundane. Which is why the story is told through a progression of absurd situations. While the two characters in the story are Serbian and Argentinian, it could have been a host of other ethnic groups. The story isn’t about where someone came from. It’s a satirical look at the mounting hardships encountered by a new immigrant. Where the outcome of his journey for a better life is far different from the plan.

WRITER & DIRECTOR,

Steve Spremo

Steve Spremo was born and raised in Chicago, IL, and is a second-generation immigrant. Ice Cream. Sladoled is his first film and follows a new immigrant on a rough day. He studied film for two years. Then received a business degree.

Steve’s interest in storytelling started with writing. Past writing projects include collaborative and solo written short and feature length screenplays that have placed in various screenwriting competitions, including: The Austin, Cinequest, Nashville, New Hampshire, and Woods Hole Film Festivals, as well as the BlueCat Screenplay Competition and the Page Screenwriting Awards.

His co-written full-length novel, "North Point", received the “Our Verdict: Get It!” recommendation by Kirkus Review

Igor Obradović as Rade

Igor is an actor and director born in Serbia who lives and works in Chicago. He’s a longtime member of the organization Serbian Theater in Chicago, where he’s played some of the most memorable roles from Serbian Theater and has adapted non-Serbian theatrical plays into Serbian. As a director he has always aimed for the highest standards and to deliver performances that will keep the audience coming back. He’s one of the most well known Serbian actors in Chicago. He has been an associate of Serbian Television for many years. Through his artistic work, he wants to present the plays of Serbian writers to the world’s audience. “Ice Cream. Sladoled” is his first performance in a film.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,
Srđan Srđenović

Srđan was born and raised in Serbia and now lives in California. Both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in cinematography. Srđan works as a director of photography and has over 17 years of experience working on both film projects and on television shows.

EDITOR,
Damián Tetelbaum

Born in Buenos Aires in 1987. He studied at the Instituto de Arte Cinematográfico (IDAC), and later specialized at the Universidad del Cine (FUC), where he currently teaches editing.

Since 2011, he edited 10 feature films, 6 documentaries, 4 documentary series for TV and a dozen short films, selected at festivals such as San Sebastian, Berlinale, Torino, Miami, BFI London, Clermont Ferrand, Havana, Munich, Sydney, BAFICI, San Diego, among others. In 2022 he won the “Best Editing” prize for “Paula”, an Argentinian-Italian coproduction.

He is currently developing his first feature film as director with funding from the FFA Filmförderungsanstalt - Berlin and pre-producing a short film to be shot in France with the support of the CNC.

Sound Designer,
Aleksandar Manja

Aleksandar Manja is a sound designer from Belgrade, Serbia, with an MA in Sound Design from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. His background in film led him into the gaming industry, where he has done extensive work with sound on video games. Often he’ll borrow practices from video games when working with film. He is the president and co-founder of the first Serbian game developers association "Level Up Serbia" and the principal organizer of the only annual Serbian pro-audio conference "Audio Forum" comprising Grammy, Academy and Emmy award-winners as part of its speaker lineups.

Esteban Schemberg, as Miguel

Esteban has appeared in film and television in Argentina, the US and Spain. His credits include:

La Flor (El Pampero Cine-Argentina), El karma de Carmen (SombraCine-Argentina), Villorio del Caudillo (BandBang Films-Spain), Guapas (Pol-ka Producciones-Argentina) and Soy Luna (Disney Channel, Latin America). In theater he has appeared in The Abuelas produced by Teatro Vista (Victory Gardens Theater-Chicago), La Mandrágora (Teatro Payro-Argentina), La luz es un pozo and Tattoo (Abasto Social Club-Argentina) to name just a few.